Mercedes-Benz Junior Cup

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The Mercedes-Benz Junior Cup is an international A-Youth - football tournament that year in early January in the Glass Palace in Sindelfingen takes place. A professional tournament and a trainee tournament have been held since 1991. The record winner of the professional tournament is VfB Stuttgart with five tournament victories. Until 1998 the tournament was called the Daimler-Benz Junior Cup, from 1999 to 2007 the tournament was called the DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup.

The tournament

The game is played on a 50 × 30 meter artificial turf field filled with rubber granulate , which is surrounded on all sides by a meter high wooden band. The goals are 5 × 2 meters. As a special feature, the playing field has "round corners" like those found in ice hockey .

Sports portals such as spox.com and kicker.de sometimes showed live streams from the tournament. In 2013, the Mercedes-Benz Junior Cup was broadcast for the first time on the television channel Sport1 . Many top international teams such as FC Barcelona , Tottenham Hotspur , RSC Anderlecht , Paris Saint-Germain , Urawa Red Diamonds or Club América and numerous later national players were participants in the Mercedes-Benz Junior Cup. Youth national teams from countries such as Argentina , Cameroon , Cuba , Vietnam and Iran have already taken part in the Mercedes-Benz Junior Cup.

In April 2002 the then Deputy Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Walter Döring personally presented the Cuban Football Association with an invitation for the Cuban U-19 national team to the DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup 2003. By accepting this invitation, this selection traveled to Europe for the first time in its history . The U-19 national team of Cameroon also traveled to Europe for the first time for this tournament. Previously, the then Cameroonian national coach Winfried Schäfer had asked to participate and said this international comparison was also important in A-youth. The U-19 national team of Vietnam played their first ever indoor games at the 2004 DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup. In 2005, the North Korean U-19 team took part in the DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup. In the North Korean team, mainly the players were nominated who had finished second at the U-17 Asian Cup a year earlier and had qualified for the U-17 World Cup in Peru in 2005 .

Ten teams of apprentices from different companies in the Daimler Group take part in the apprentice tournament.

The tournament is organized as part of the Sindelfingen indoor football gala by the football departments of GSV Maichingen and VfL Sindelfingen .

The money generated at the tournaments is donated annually to a good cause. Up until 2002 alone that was a total of 350,000 euros . The money often goes to an SOS Children's Village . Sometimes donations are also made to victims of current disasters. In 2004 it was decided to donate a large part of the money to the victims of an earthquake in Iran .

The tournament reaches nearly 10,000 spectators annually.

Previous winners of the professional tournament

year	winner
1991	Belgium RSC Anderlecht
1992	France Paris Saint-Germain
1993	Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
1994	Hungary Hungary
1995	Germany VfB Stuttgart
1996	Germany VfB Stuttgart
1997	Turkey Turkey
1998	Germany Berlin
1999	Austria Styria
2000	Germany VfB Stuttgart ^note Austria ^note Austria
2001	Germany Borussia Dortmund
2002	Germany VfB Stuttgart
2003	Germany Hertha BSC
2004	Germany Hertha BSC
2005	Germany Werder Bremen
2006	Germany FC Schalke 04
2007	Germany VfB Stuttgart
2008	Croatia Dinamo Zagreb
2009	Germany Karlsruher SC
2010	Germany Bayer 04 Leverkusen
2011	Germany Sc freiburg
2012	Germany 1. FSV Mainz 05
2013	Germany FC Schalke 04
2014	Germany FC Schalke 04
2015	England Manchester United
2016	Austria SK Rapid Vienna
2017	Germany TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2018	Germany Hertha BSC
2019	England Liverpool FC
2020	Austria SK Rapid Vienna

5 tournament victories: VfB Stuttgart (1995, 1996, 2000 ^note , 2002 and 2007)
3 tournament victories: Hertha BSC (2003, 2004 and 2018), FC Schalke 04 (2006, 2013 and 2014)
2 tournament victories: SK Rapid Wien (2016 and 2020)
1 tournament victory: RSC Anderlecht (1991), Paris Saint-Germain (1992), Eintracht Frankfurt (1993), Hungary (1994), Turkey (1997), Berlin (1998), Styria (1999), Austria (2000 ^note ), Borussia Dortmund (2001), Werder Bremen (2005), Dinamo Zagreb (2008), Karlsruher SC (2009), Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2010), SC Freiburg (2011), 1. FSV Mainz 05 (2012), Manchester United (2015 ), TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (2017), Liverpool FC (2019)

^Note In 2000, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary, two separate tournaments were held for club teams and national teams.

Previous international participants in the professional tournament

Africa: Egypt , Cameroon , Malawi , Nigeria , South Africa
Asia: Guangzhou Evergrande , Iran , Israel , North Korea , South Korea , Urawa Red Diamonds , Vietnam
America: Atlanta United FC , Alabama , Argentina , Fluminense FC , California , Cuba , Club América , Panama , Porto Alegre Brazil, USA
Europe: AZ Alkmaar , RSC Anderlecht , Panathinaikos Athens , AJ Auxerre , FC Barcelona , FC Basel , Girondins Bordeaux , Brøndby IF , FC Bruges , Ferencváros Budapest , Bulgaria , Crystal Palace , PSV Eindhoven , Lechia Gdańsk , Sampdoria Genoa , Celtic Glasgow , Glasgow Rangers , FC Innsbruck , Beşiktaş Istanbul , Fenerbahçe Istanbul , Galatasaray Istanbul , FC Copenhagen , Croatia , Leeds United , Leicester City , Liechtenstein , FC Liverpool , Manchester United , Macedonia , FC Middlesbrough , AS Monaco , Torpedo Moscow , Austria , Paris Saint-Germain , Lech Posen , Sparta Prague , Víkingur Reykjavík , AS Rome , Lazio Rome , Feyenoord Rotterdam , Russia , FC Red Bull Salzburg , SV Casino Salzburg , Zenit Saint Petersburg , Styria , Tottenham Hotspur , Rosenborg Trondheim , Czech Republic , Ukraine , Vejle BK , Belarus , SK Rapid Vienna , Dinamo Zagreb , Grasshopper Club Zurich

Web links

Individual evidence

^ German-Cuban Football Friendship eV: The invitation to Sindelfingen was handed over by Minister Dr. Döring. ( Memento from November 1, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

^ Deutsch-Kubanische Fußballfreundschaft eV: Press release: Visit of the U19 national soccer team of Cuba in Baden-Württemberg ( Memento from August 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

↑ media.daimler.com: 13th DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup on January 4th and 5th in Sindelfingen: Winnie Schäfer's "Jung-Löwen" in the Glaspalast ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 2, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / media.daimler.com

↑ Martin Hägele: Vietnam's youngsters learn without losing face. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. January 5, 2004, p. 31.

↑ Matthias A. Schmid: North Korea prefers to answer with goals: The U-19 selection team is visiting Sindelfingen. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. January 8, 2005, p. 8.

↑ ^a ^b ^c media.daimler.com: The DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 16, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / media.daimler.com

↑ Youth Football Foundation: preliminary round of the DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup ended , January 3, 2004

^ Carlos Dunga at the 14th DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup in Sindelfingen. Retrieved June 15, 2012 .

↑ ALEMANHA - Daimler Chrysler Junior CUP. Retrieved June 15, 2012 (Portuguese).

[1] German-Cuban Football Friendship eV: The invitation to Sindelfingen was handed over by Minister Dr. Döring. ( Memento from November 1, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Deutsch-Kubanische Fußballfreundschaft eV: Press release: Visit of the U19 national soccer team of Cuba in Baden-Württemberg ( Memento from August 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive )